Creative Writing (Online Distance Learning)

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

The MLitt in Creative Writing is directed at those who are already engaged in writing. The programme’s clear three-part structure, focused on creative, critical and practical issues, distinguishes it from others offered in the UK.

The programme structure covers: Semester 1 CREATIVE WRITING: CRAFT AND EXPERIMENTATION 1 CREATIVE WRITING: EDITING AND PUBLICATION 1 CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP CREATIVE WRITING PORTFOLIO (PGT)

Semester 2 CREATIVE WRITING: CRAFT AND EXPERIMENTATION 2 CREATIVE WRITING: EDITING AND PUBLICATION 2 CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP CREATIVE WRITING PORTFOLIO (PGT) Creative Conversations and other visiting speakers, which are not courses, also run through both semesters.

These courses have been developed to:

-Encourage you to experiment with a range of voices, techniques and genres alongside a consideration of major creative and editorial engagements from the modern through the contemporary period -Provide a space to undertake extended portfolios of creative and editorial work -Familiarise you with the writing context (audience, publishing in all its forms, the legal framework, modes of transmission); help you develop a critical Understanding of diverse creative, theoretic and critical texts through consideration of major creative and editorial engagements in modern and contemporary writing -Help you develop the discipline of regular writing by providing a stimulating workshop and tutorial environment in which writing skills can be acquired, discussed and honed -Your portfolio, consisting of fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, or script-writing, is at the heart of the summative assessment.

Glasgow is a city known for its culture and our students are involved in festivals, events, radio and literary magazines.